Thanks for the quick reply Jerry. I thought I had fixed posying. Anyway, I don't have the codes online and I don't know my way around them very well either. But, I believe NEC article 400, Flexible cords, speaks to extension cords. 400.7 talks about uses permitted PORTABLE lamps appliance _ I ciaught portable this time. 400.8 talks about uses not permitted and in there I see nothing to preclude it except maybe protection from physicall damage, and it looks like that was just added in 2008 (the book I'm lookig in) and phyical damage would be the same for the flexible cord attaced to the opener, right? I know you're trying to force me to figure it out, but give me a hint. Thanks.

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Jim, in Calvert County, MD